Jacksonville

Jacksonville, (1) capital of Duval county, Florida, and the principal business town in the state, is on the St John's River, 23 miles from its mouth. The meeting-place of five railways, it is 165 miles by rail E. of the state capital, Tallahassee. The streets are wide and well shaded; there are numerous hotels, chiefly for the accommodation of invalids and winter visitors. The city has a large coast trade, besides an active river trade. The chief exports are lumber, cotton, moss, oranges and marmalade, and early vegetables. Pop. (1880) 7650; (1890) 17,201—more than doubled.—(2) Capital of Morgan county, Illinois, stands in a fertile prairie region, at the junction of several railways, 34 miles W. by S. of Springfield. It is a pleasant town, and noted for its schools. Here are the Illinois College (Congregational; founded 1830), the Illinois Female College (Methodist; founded 1847), a conservatory of music, and other educational institutions; and here, too, are state asylums for the blind, the deaf and dumb, and the insane, and an asylum for the idiotic and feeble-minded. There are manufactures of woollens, paper, machinery, boilers, lumber, furniture, confectionery, &c. Pop. (1880) 10,927; (1890) 12,935.